Ambivalence in Hardy

Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Critics' Debate The Hand of Ethelberta The Return of the Native Two on a Tower The Woodlanders The Short Stories of the 1890s Jude the Obscure Hardy, his Wives, and his Literary Protégées Hardy and Some Contemporary Female Writers Conclusion: 'A Confused Heap of Impressions' Notes Index

...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice